skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm writing firmware for my espresso machine in Rust right now and I was also pretty blown away at how easy it is. I am writing code across two micro-controllers (I'm re-using existing hardware) and I am using no-std RTIC2+Embassy on an STM32 inside machine and std Embassy on a ESP32-S3 on the outside of the machine. I don't know C++ (although C++ for embedded would probably have been fine, except I don't like C++ anyway) and it would have been a lot more work to get this working in C.

Using Rust I get so many static guarantees that it makes it trivial to get things working. And things have matured a lot since the last time I checked about a year ago.

Things are still a bit rough, for example I am maintaining my own version of embassy-stm32 so I can make a few things work the way I want to, but it's not really a problem for an embedded project.

Developing rust for xtensa is also a bit painful at times, but it still beats writing C or C++.

Moreover, RTIC2 allows me to write high performance real time code the way I would have written it in C with a mountain of boilerplate removed from sight just down to the way async works in rust as well as the things RTIC handles.
Why, exactly? These companies have foreign customers, it seems reasonable to expect that they would also want to have foreign employees that can speak the language, work in the same time zone, etc. And the demand for those employees is unlikely to be perfectly commensurate with demand for US based employees at all times. Seems like a ban would be pretty destructive, even if some of this hiring is an attempt at offshoring work US based employees would be doing.
Germany is facing more intense economic challenges than most.
Why is the approach not scalable? In general, everyone has interests, whether part of a small group, a medium group, or a large group.

There's a homelessness issue amongst veterans. So, let's try subsidies and support to reduce the severity of the issue. It seems to work. What did we learn, and can we build on those lessons in general? It's better to use a bandaid than just bleed.
tbh some dreams be hitting more than others some are just messed up lol just a lil note to the dream police
That explains why I haven't been losing weight!
They're strictly worse.

They're just a summary, so any information is in the results or hallucinated.

If the AI could accurately point to the correct information, they would just order the results as such, but instead it's just a paragraph of spaghetti on a wall to look cutting edge.
It is literally impossible to satisfy infinite demand. Who is buying the houses? Figure that out and you can solve the problem. If we choose to ignore demand side, don't investigate what is driving demand, how it is distributed and so on, and continue to pretend real estate markets are perfect and we need merely deregulate to solve all problems, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary (bubbles, collusion rings, fraud and wreckless speculation), it will not end well.
If the pivoting never happens then the effort will have been wasted. Adding features because of "what if" is the worst engineering sin.
The only thing holding back California from having an economy larger than the rest of the United States combined
Literate Programming, UnTANGLEd
'We can use automation tools to just throw away your resume, but heaven forbid the average person does' isn't a take average people care about.

I look forward to the day the average person has the same level of access to agents to counter all this. Oh, Wall Street Journal you want to make it difficult to unsubscribe? You want me to call, waste time on the phone, etc. OK, I'll just have my AI agent call and take up your calling agents time, increasing your costs.

... my AI agent goes through phone tree... finally connected to agent...
WSJ Support Person:'Hello, Wall Street Journal support'
My AI Agent: 'please hold as I connect with my human'
hold music plays...
My AI Agent: 'sorry, we are taking longer to connect than normal, please hold while you are connected'
hold music plays...
Sounds like you're living in an area where the parking at the airport is subsidized because other transportation options are suboptimal, likely because the airport is prioritized. I lived in many places in the EU and North America, and nowhere airport parking was cheap. Unless going for a day or two, it's cheaper to take a taxi both ways.
landlord pays for water

the army is rising

we formed a new religion

lol
> - scrape linkedin and apply to jobs based on the result

That was my first thought when looking for jobs, but maybe I am naive, wouldn't this break their ToS?
Deepseek v3 is an MoE model - not every parameter is activated at the same time.
So a big part of the problem is that we feel the need to give people a veto about apartments, but not single detached units. That's a decent portion of our housing crisis right there!

"Would we ask any of the same questions of a new single-family house in the same neighborhood?"

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/2/28/new-apartments...
Yes, you are right. Not to be too snide about it but this is not optimal.

You get provably better performance if you let the thing analyze the situation / think through the problem / whatever before letting it commit to choosing a status like that.
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How about chess boxing?
Is Google supposed to give you an answer, or help you find something you're looking for?

Back when they only tried to help you find something, they were good at that. Really good. Then the ads and meta-slop came in and you couldn't find things anymore.

Then they decided they also wanted to answer questions, which is hard enough (they're often wrong). So they have to focus harder on answering questions.

And since they're trying to do both in one page/place, the question-answering has taken center stage, and finding things is now next to impossible.

So they're no longer a search engine. They're a crap version of OpenAI.
> Elon Musk and others claim there is an engineer shortage and we must increase the number of H-1B visas in order to fill this gap

There is a shortage of engineers who are willing to work cheap, and to be much more tolerant of shitty working conditions because getting fired = getting deported.
If the system was willing to link to the sources from which it obtained particular information, it would be too easy to hold them accountable for having stolen a bunch of content from people who didn't opt in!
My kids routinely watch YouTube (with me): videos about carpentry, pottery, machining, robotics, electronics, chemistry, microbiology, recreational mathematics, visual effects, history, ...
Anyone comparing tramp to Vscs remote editing is delusional, and I say this as an emacs user.
You, as chump trying to get a a job, are not similar to Magnus, the greatest chess player of all time, trying to play in a chess tournament. FIDE is well within their rights to demand he not wear jeans. Magnus is well within his rights to tell them to fuck off. FIDE loses more here.
One thing I've seen is the company would prefer to hire women/non-white, but doesn't get many qualified/competitive non-white applicants. Because an unfortunate number of seem to be trying to hustle into CS from outside the field, come from boot camps, etc., and are applying to senior roles with junior skills.
I remember in the late 80s there was a bar called “Lennon’s” in Liverpool. The dress code banned jeans. Pretty sure John Lennon would have despised the place.
Want and need way too much money. Cost of living is wild everywhere and cost of a lifestyle we used to consider "standard" (family, home ownership, kids can go to college, annual vacation, usually on one salary) is out of reach for most now.

Looking at the numbers for the decline in spending power over time is sobering.
The other piece of context that's worth noting is that Carlsen is not as good as he used to be (he's still the best player in the world, but not by as big of a margin as he was 5-10 years ago) and that he seems to getting increasingly exasperated with chess itself. Every GOAT eventually retires in a different type of way (Kasparov, Anand, Karpov, all did it a bit differently) and Carlsen's might be coming up soon.
Forever is a long time. Indefinite is easy though. Find a company that will accept a deposit for future services, and bonus if they can accept third party deposits to fund your account in the future. Include information about adding funds somewhere and hope someone will find it and pay for it after you stop.

It will go offline at some point in the future, but since you don't know when, it's indefinite.

Could be when the money runs out (but costs may go up or down), or when the hosting company goes out of business, or stops providing this service. Or if they decide to do a KYC check and can't contact you.
Interesting thoughts, thanks. It seems to me a model trained to generate Lean could also be purposed to explain a large Lean proof, and that’s very interesting. So much of modern math is limited to extremely small cohorts.

None of that is dispositive inre provable safety, obviously.
That type of referral indeed is mostly worthless (it might get you actually looked at by a human instead of rejected before that). Useful referrals are the kind where you go chat with your friend, figure out what they want in a job, then go find the hiring manager and tell them about this amazing ex-colleague who's a perfect fit for the role. That gets the candidate treated seriously. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but definitely gives the candidate a fair shot.
As someone who works in EMS in the PNW, while there absolutely are the "fentanyl-addicted zombies", I think a larger part of the drug+homelessness dark combination is our -appalling- state of mental healthcare.

I have seen people who have been brought in for mental health issues, actively seeking help, spend -four days- on a temporary gurney in an ER hallway before they are "seen".

That is hellacious. Even in an ER room, which is still not calm, you can at least close a door, pull a curtain and turn lights down low.

In the hallway, full light, 24/7, all the sensory overload of an overwhelmed ER, nowhere to hide, nowhere to go AND you're in a mental health crisis? People, equipment, chaos going by you every moment of the day and night?

I'm perfectly sane (or so I'd like to think), and that would drive me to the brink.

So you don't look for help and you're on the street. And the vicious cycle begins. Like you say, we've absolutely destroyed our social safety nets (and that's in the PNW, probably one of the better areas in the country for them, I can't imagine in the deep south).

If my life ends up being begging (actual begging), hunting for scraps, using alleys as toilets, I think I'd be using drugs in fairly short order to help numb the pain of that existence.
Classic "buying on the high" behavior, we saw this in 1998/99 also.
> If Google kept at “Pages must be short and provide straight answers”, then we’d have much better search results today.

I disagree. Any prescription for what the ranking should be that isn't simply the most relevant result is a worse ranking.

I don't care if the top search result is the fastest, leanest, shortest, straightest, most adless, most equitable answer to my query if it's not the best answer to my query. I'll take the slowest loading, most verbose, popup ridden, mobile-unfriendly site if it's the one that has what I asked for.

Trying to add weights for things other than relevance is probably exactly where Google started going wrong. And then when it turned out badly, people propose yet more weights beyond relevance to fix the problem of irrelevance?
Referrals in my company basically just guarantee that the resume isn't immediately thrown in the trash, doesn't really help anyone's odds otherwise. I suspect in most companies it's similar, if they even get that much of a benefit (unless you're upper management (aka nepotism) I guess)
Did they say:

reduce their daily calorie intake to 1,500 - 1,800 calories
or
reduce their daily calorie intake by 1,500 - 1,800 calories

These are very different answers, unless you’re consuming ~3,300 calories per day. These kinds of ‘subtle’ phrasing issue often results in AI mistake as both words are commonly used in advice but the context is really important.
globalization mate, globalization… there will never be a law in the US of A that prevents companies from finding cheap labor… more than a quarter (and ever growing) SWEs are no longer “on shore”
We only ever used body shops when we were really desperate.
This! "I don't want to watch a 10-minute video for a quick answer."

And this: "OpenAI's search is becoming Google in the 2000s, if it can remain trustworthy."

The problem I see: People use OpenAI/Perplexity for knowledge. Not to seek website. I think sooner or later, most website will block AI crawlers. What does a website gets out of it?
What they claim to want to create is a for-profit organization that replaces "most economically valuable work".

Putting aside the enormous capital, technical and energetic hurdles - where would the profits come from?

Sam's idea seems to be that governments will have to give people basic income, but he is not really an ally to the UBI movement, because in his vision mainly what needs to be bought is access to OpenAI's computer systems.

To be honest it is the onus of the venture capital class to prove they are not grifters. Talk is extremely cheap compared to the resources at their disposal. And to be fair most of them do not even claim to be altruists.
YT Music recommender algo is pretty good.

Easy to start a mix/radio from any track/video or playlist.

There are public playlists, though I have no idea how well curated they are.
This is pretty cool, though it seems more beneficial as a neat demo project than for its actual functionality. First, automated job application submission probably doesn’t endear you to hiring managers. And, moreover, you probably don’t want to optimize your life for job hunting in the same way that you probably don’t want to optimize your life for being very good at first dates. Life is more fulfilling if you can find what you want and keep it for the long run.
Voters should remove that - California has more renters than owners.
They are not “gum”. They are mainly starch. They have no nutritional benefit but a do convert a big load of sugars in your blood.
I'm willing to bet that WV police have a less 'tolerant' attitude towards homelessness, even "non-problematic", and very a much a "move along/gtfo of our town" attitude.
This is a false conspiracy narrative that belongs on Reddit in the r/fuckcars filter bubble.

Sure, the automotive industry stood to benefit from the decline of rail travel in the US. But they didn’t really need to do anything for that to happen on its own. Reality is far less interesting than that. Turns out when you have tons of fertile land, even pre-industrialization your population tends to spread out a bit (the vast majority of Americans used to be farmers). Today the US has 3-5X less population density than any country with high speed rail. Autos saw massive success in the US due to this fact, and their prevalence reduced the demand for rail travel as a side effect, it wasn’t some top down evil conspiracy.

It’s fun to blame everything on evil big business or evil big government, but it’s also important to look at the first principles and base properties of the issue at hand first.
Oh yeah. Starting from something fairly-reasonable is far, far better than starting from scratch .

And yeah, I used to do defense work. For the most part, it's exactly like non-defense work, with one of the big differentiators being that to work from home, you'd often need to build a SCIF in your home. (Good fucking luck with getting that approved.)
I was a groomsman at a wedding where someone showed up in jeans.

Japes abounded and some of the more conservative family members were giving severe side-eye, but at no point was it suggested that he be sent home. He showed up in jeans (offense), we gave him a lot of ribbing that he took in good stride (punishment).

The appropriate response to offenses like this doesn't have to be banishment.
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Why do we think the AI is any better? Isn't it based on the same dataset as search? How can it be anything but strictly worse for any given query?
Today's SEO isn't the reason, it's simply more profitable for Google to give you terrible search results.

It makes no financial sense for Google to give you good search results and get you off Google as soon as possible.

Instead, if they make you spend more time on Google due to having to go through more crappy results, they can sell more ads.

Most people won't change search engine and will stomach it.

Until ChatGPT happened and can save you the pain of having to use Googles search engine.
What is so sad about this is the windows don't need to be replaced. Original windows hold significant value. While modern replacements typically need replacement within 20-30 years, historic wooden windows can last centuries with proper maintenance. The craftsmanship in older windows often surpasses modern alternatives, making restoration a worthwhile investment for both historical accuracy and longevity.

I restored 189 windows in my 200-year-old house in Poland rather than replacing them. The windows are fundamental to a building's character and historical authenticity. You can date a building by analyzing its window features. The older the house, the fewer and smaller the windows, often due to glass manufacturing limitations and structural needs. For instance, a 16th-century manor might have small, thick-glassed windows with irregular panes, while an 18th-century townhouse would show taller, multi-paned sash windows.
You’re talking about blacklists.

They are not a new idea, in fact they are well known, but also prohibited by law in many places because of their widespread abuse.

There’s also a more general idea in competition law that companies shoul, well, compete their fields, and allowing cartel-like behaviour on the labour market is contradictory to this.
> > there is no company running absolutely anything on top of legion
> Does Nvidia count?

I don't understand? To prove that NVIDIA ships legion you sent me a link to a LANL post? How does that make sense? Show me a product page on NVIDIA's domain to prove to me that NVIDIA uses this in a product.

> The ACM Turing Award (computer science equivalent of Nobel Prize) committee believes otherwise

You seem to not get what I'm saying: my firm is position is academia doesn't understand absolutely anything in this area. Zero. Zilch. Nada. And absolutely no one in the industry cares either. So given that position, why is this relevant?

The only thing academia is good for is a talent pool of hard-working, smart people. We take those people and then completely retrain them to do actually useful work instead of research nonsense. The vast majority of PhDs coming from academia to industry (yes even from Stanford) literally are horrible software/hardware engineers. Many of them stay that way. The good ones (at least in so far as they care about having a successful career) learn quickly. That's how you get CUDA, which is a product worth a trillion dollars.

Look I've already told you: you workshop at an alter and you've also clearly never worked at a Stanford or an NVIDIA or a LANL. You'll never be convinced because... well I have no idea why people need mythologies to worship.
I think that would explain why you’re starving, not how you’re not losing weight.
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I know you specifically said you don't have a degree, but never the less the comment section gives me mega flashbacks to what happened with MBAs around 2010/2013. Same pattern.... everyone had been pushing MBAs as the "good" career path, schools were pumping out grads, and then the music stopped. I watched friends who dropped $150k+ on top MBA programs struggle to land jobs that would let them pay off their loans. The career offices kept pushing the "average starting salary" stats but those numbers were getting propped up by a small number of graduates landing PE/consulting gigs while a much larger group was fighting for corporate roles paying half that. The MBA eventually found a new equilibrium but the "MBA golden age" was over. Starting to feel like we're watching the same movie with tech, the industry isn't dying but the days of "learn to code" being a pretty safe path to upper middle class might very well be ending. As with any concentration, the smartest MBA grads I knew were the ones who treated it as a tool to build actual skills rather than just a credential.
A ton of new destinations? wow what an amazing improvement! Is it possible that was just inevitable network effect and had nothing to do with intentional investments in R/D?

It's almost as if the development of technology and politics are interrelated. Half the cost of building US airports were subsidized by the government when they added them.

Path of development and real estate prices are related to accessibility. Most of the US is not accessible, there are an equal number of paved and unpaved roads in miles. Consider receiving mail in a rural area where it's going to be 3-5 days for an amazon prime package and the closest store is 30+ miles. If you randomly sample locations in the US you'll find that is actually really common, it's just not experienced by many people. Rail networks aren't about going on vacation, it's about developing real national infrastructure that creates efficiencies that boost multiple parts of the economy.
I dont find it useful for the things I search

I still have to check the sources and then add “reddit” to the end of my search query

so for me its actually an additional third step or remembering not to trust the ai overview
Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores
The biggest reason SEO is profitable is because low quality sites run display ads. That is the lifeblood, and intrinsic motivation, for these sites to even exist.

Google operates the largest display ads network. They literally *pay* websites for SEO spam, and take a very healthy cut off the top.

I wish people would stop acting like Google has been in a noble battle against the spam sites, when those sites generate Google billions of dollars a year in revenue.

The obvious question is, why would they ruin search for display? The answer is greed combined with hubris. They were able to double dip for years, but they killed the golden goose.

Everybody with a brain knew this would happen when they bought Doubleclick, and it took longer than expected, but here we are.
Have you ever taken any trains in Europe? I cannot think of any route in any country where I've lived in Europe where driving would be even remotely close to taking the train, and in some cases it's faster than flying. Newcastle to London is 2h40m by train, about 5 hours of driving. Flight is 40 minutes but you're nowhere near the city centre, so once you take into account going through security plus necessary transfer times it's much longer. Brussels to Paris is an hour and a half on the train, driving is at least double that. Krakow to Warsaw is just over 2 hours, the drive is at least 3 hours and that's to the outskirts not city centre to city centre.
While I don't think it's fair to presume anything about his intentions, it's totally fair to presume he is aware of the rules. He's the world's best chess player of all time, and it's not his first FIDE event.
I agree we need something radically different because it’s an open gate to partial product placement with ads generated on the fly to people taste.
Awful future ahead
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